Elsa
See also: elsa
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Elsa, contraction of Elisabeth, occasionally used in English after its appearance in Wagner's opera Lohengrin (1847).
Proper noun
Elsa
- A female given name from Hebrew.
- 1988 Barbara Vine, The House of Stairs, Onyx(1990), →ISBN, page 35:
- A friend that I envied — it was the same friend who had benefited from admiring Cosette's jewelry, a girl whose name was Elsa and whom naturally we called Lioness —
- 1988 Barbara Vine, The House of Stairs, Onyx(1990), →ISBN, page 35:
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Elsa f
- a female given name.
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
Anagrams
Faroese
Proper noun
Elsa f
- a female given name
Usage notes
Matronymics
- son of Elsa: Elsuson
- daughter of Elsa: Elsudóttir
Declension
Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Elsa |
Accusative | Elsu |
Dative | Elsu |
Genitive | Elsu |
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Elsa
- a female given name.
- 1894 Teuvo Pakkala, Elsa, SKS (1995), →ISBN, page 11:
- Voisiko hänenkin tyttärelleen käydä noin, vaikka hän uskoisi Jumalaan, uskoisi niin vakavasti kuin on uskonut, että hän varjelee Elsan? Ei, se on mahdotonta!
- 2014 Heidi Jaatinen, Kaksi viatonta päivää, Gummerus, →ISBN, pages 153-154:
- Ja hän melkein hymyili sille. Ja sai tietää, että tytöllä oli nimi: Elsa. Siro nimi puhumattomalle tytölle.
- 1894 Teuvo Pakkala, Elsa, SKS (1995), →ISBN, page 11:
Declension
Inflection of Elsa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Elsa | Elsat | ||
genitive | Elsan | Elsojen | ||
partitive | Elsaa | Elsoja | ||
illative | Elsaan | Elsoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Elsa | Elsat | ||
accusative | nom. | Elsa | Elsat | |
gen. | Elsan | |||
genitive | Elsan | Elsojen Elsain rare | ||
partitive | Elsaa | Elsoja | ||
inessive | Elsassa | Elsoissa | ||
elative | Elsasta | Elsoista | ||
illative | Elsaan | Elsoihin | ||
adessive | Elsalla | Elsoilla | ||
ablative | Elsalta | Elsoilta | ||
allative | Elsalle | Elsoille | ||
essive | Elsana | Elsoina | ||
translative | Elsaksi | Elsoiksi | ||
abessive | Elsatta | Elsoitta | ||
instructive | — | Elsoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
German
Etymology
Medieval diminutive of Elisabeth.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Elsa
- a female given name.
Italian
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Elsa.
Proper noun
Elsa ?
- A river in Tuscany
Etymology 2
Contraction of Elisabetta or Elisa.
Proper noun
Elsa f
- a female given name
Norwegian
Etymology
From Elisabet.
Proper noun
Elsa
- a female given name.
Spanish
Proper noun
Elsa f
- a female given name
Swedish
Etymology
Rare medieval contraction of Elisabet, also a variant Danish Else. First recorded in Sweden in 1422. Taken to general use in the 19th century through the influence of the identical German name.
Proper noun
Elsa c (genitive Elsas)
- a female given name.
References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 42 087 females with the given name Elsa living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Categories:
- English terms derived from German
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English given names
- English female given names
- English female given names from Hebrew
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech proper nouns
- Czech feminine nouns
- Czech given names
- Czech female given names
- Faroese lemmas
- Faroese proper nouns
- Faroese feminine nouns
- Faroese given names
- Faroese female given names
- Finnish terms derived from German
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/elsɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/elsɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German given names
- German female given names
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- it:Rivers in Tuscany
- it:Rivers in Italy
- it:Places in Tuscany
- it:Places in Italy
- Italian feminine nouns
- Italian given names
- Italian female given names
- Norwegian lemmas
- Norwegian proper nouns
- Norwegian given names
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- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish given names
- Spanish female given names
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish given names
- Swedish female given names